PSYC85H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Color Vision, Hermann Von Helmholtz, Frontal Lobe
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Week 3 lecture #3: thursday september 17, 2015. Moving toward a science of psychology: 19th century transformations: two key developments critical to psychology as a science in 19th century, advances in physiology, introduction of quantitative measurements for mental processes. Activities of mind can"t be studied experimentally: would entail dividing mind mind is a whole, however, they can be expressed mathematically. Ideas that are striving for expression create negative emotions. Ideas that make it into consciousness have allied ideas. Applied ideas to education: review previous material, prepare students for new material with overview of what"s to come, present new material, relate new material to already learned, show applications, and give overview of what"s next. Change in i/i = k (weber"s law was the 1st quantitative law in psych) Fechner and aesthetics: created the field of experimental aesthetics, tried to quantify reactions to beauty, from-above: according to standards imposed on art, from-below: based on experience, golden ratio was a focus.
